SOLOMON HUGHES says even electoral defeat isn’t a deterrent to right-wing MPs: pro-corporate policies might lose elections but they can be lucrative nonetheless
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We should not underestimate the extent to which the NEU is making the weather on the education debate
The situation facing schools, teachers and children has never been worse, but the NUT has been fighting back strongly at grassroots level, writes ALEX KENNY
Schools are at breaking point, argues NASUWT general secretary MATT WRACK — we urgently need investment in our kids’ futures
MIKE SCOTT assesses the AI threat to jobs in the first of a pair of articles on the problems it poses
Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about” — Oscar Wilde.
TWELVE months ago, NUT general secretary Kevin Courtney used his closing address to NUT Conference to put the union on a campaign footing.
Just two hours earlier Theresa May stood outside 10 Downing Street and told the world that she was calling a snap general election, an announcement to which the NUT was able to offer an immediate response through Courtney’s address to conference — we would take the issue of education and in particular the school funding crisis to the school gates and the doorstep, he told delegates.
The recent report that the NUT is to be investigated by the Electoral Commission for our spending during the general election is a testament to the success of our campaign.
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